Continuity Quote by Herbert Read

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the…

— Gail Fine

“A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and…

— Robert A. Nisbet

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

— Henry Giroux

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in…

— E. M. Forster

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

“The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears…

— Michel Foucault

“In line with the total assault of scientific investigation and critical rationality on our most well-cherished and established intuitions, why should we expect the…

— Reza Negarestani

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

— Anonymous